Intl. Drama Festival unveils winners

'Pandora' nabs Grand Prix

TOKYO — The Intl. Drama Festival, which runs Wednesday to Friday in association with the Tokyo Film Festival, has announced the winners of its first competition for TV shows.

Scooping the Grand Prix for a continuing series is “Pandora,” a medical research drama on the Wowow entertainment channel that also netted the script nod for Yumiko Inoue.

The award for stand-alone drama went to “Ten to Sen” (Points and Lines), a two-part program on TV Asahi based on a mystery novel by Seicho Matsumoto. Its helmer, Kan Ishibashi, shared director honors with “Pandora’s” Shunsaku Kawake.